Event 40: $320 NL Hold’em [6-Max] - $250k Gtd.

Event 40 of this year’s World Championship of Online poker smashed its quarter-million guarantee, attracting 2,327 players and building a prize pool just a few thousand short of $700,000.

After more than 16 hours of poker Romanian player ottoman09 closed the door to win his first WCOOP title and over $86,000.

But, thanks to a three-way deal, the biggest share of the prize pool went to runner-up MilanRabsz from Poland.

Irish player pepealas was the third participant in the chop, finishing third and pocketing $72,800.

Here are the full final table results, adjusted to reflect the deal:

1st: ottoman09 (Romania) - $86,771.85*

2nd: MilanRabsz (Poland) - $90,000.00*

3rd: pepealas (Ireland) - $72,800.00*

4th: PAULMARCKO (Russia) - $40,140.75

5th: Booobich (Sweden) - $26,178.75

6th: N1clasM (Sweden) - $13,948.03

Cashing in this event but missing out on the big money up top were former November Niner Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (12th), 2011 WCOOP main event winner Thomas "Kallllle" Pedersen (13th) and Randall “RandALLin” Flowers (88th).

Max Lykov (Photo courtesy of PokerStarsBlog.com)

Martin Hruby (298th), George Lind (296th) and Ana Marquez (229th) were the only Team PokerStars Pros to make the money.

Event 41: $320 HORSE - $100k Gtd.

Event 41 was a $320 HORSE tournament that drew 598 players. As expected the event was well-attended by professionals with a few notable names making the final table.

While it was ultimately NoraFlum who took down the event, playing from Mexico, skilled players like Alexey “LuckyGump” Makarov and Team PokerStars Pro Maxim Lykov also picked up final-table money.

Playing ten-minute levels of Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, Limit Razz, Limit Stud and Limit Stud Hi-Lo, the final table was whittled down player by player until NoraFlum was left alone in the winner’s circle with the $33k first-place prize.

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